BTW... I think that the GP is the first post I aimed to be funny that was moderated as Insightful instead of Troll or Flamebait. Lets hope that will become a trend.
I myself prefer the cool/uncool division of our planet and/or galaxy.
Its very simple. I just take an arbitrary imaginary line and divide the planet/galaxy along that line. The cool part is the one I'm on at the time. Simple.
Yeah, it sucks a bit for all those uncool people out there but its their own fault really. For a price of a plane ticket and a beer they can be on the cool side too. Get me a house/job/money/car/female-combo and I might consider making their neighborhood my permanent residence, and thus - cool.
Until someone from say... Delta Quadrant comes up with a better offer.
They have also put two different Commodore PETs and another Timex Sinclair but still no ZX. Like you said - they're a bunch of Americans.
BTW... those roll-ups don't quite have that same "cheap-rubber-blup-blup" when you press them as the ZXs did. But I may be wrong, it has been quite some since I last used a Spectrum.
But saying C64 had too many symbols per key, and not mention the Spectrum is just plain ignorant. For fucks sake - ZX had up to 6 symbols/commands attached to a single key.
Maybe there is a special 0 spot in the TFA that I missed? Nope, there isn't.
And what is with all that hate for the BREAK key? I remember it being quite useful for breaking all those GOTO 10 programs.
I am sure sooner or later someone will cater to the audiophile crowd too.
Say... a $5000 per square foot carpet that plays the sounds all around you. Or $10000 per roll wallpapers. They'll probably throw in a couple of those $400 wooden knobs in the deal just to sweeten the pot.
When facing a choice between a turd and a douche, I want the option to vote AGAINST.
Why not? When bastards get to their Parliaments, Congresses, Diets or however they call their little club where they are paid handsomely to do nothing - they get to vote "NO". Well, damn... I want to vote "NO" to that.
And where is the option to ban the fuckers from practicing politics after they fuck up multiple times?
Salvation Army is working on a cheap laptop for children too? Translation for humorless idiots with mod-points:
Parent poster is not only trolling, as it was marked at the time of my posting, he/she is also going waaay off-topic. Topic is about One Laptop Per Child and Intel's (non)involvement in the project. NOT about which charity each of us likes the best. I find the parent post funny in its pointlessness. Look - I am going to comment on it in a humorous way pointing out its fallacy.
And all those parts that laptops are made of are grown on trees that spontaneously sprout around OLPC HQs. And then, they just fall on the ground when they are ripe, and are rolled around by winds and rain until they form complete laptops. During that time, software for the laptop grows from the spores in the ground.
And then, once complete, laptops grow wings and fly directly to the child in need using the same guidance technology that Santa has been using for countless eons.
And that is why there is no money involved in the production of the OLPC.
What? You didn't like MY vision of the future but Saudi Arabian New York and underwater New York are OK? Or the feudal New York where dance is the king?
Or did my guess strike too close to home? I did base it on current economic and global trends. Dollar going down, oil running out, US military spending gajilions of dollars on projects like that energy satellite or MF-in lasers on the MF-in planes. Yeah... a regular troll-fest there.
Other than KIM HASTREITER (Co-founder and co-editor of Paper magazine) who is just fuckin' around, CAROL WILLIS (Founder and director of the Skyscraper Museum; curator of the exhibition "Future City") who is showing some common sense, KATE KAPLAN (Seventh grader, School of the Future, a New York City public school near Gramercy Park) who actually has some intriguing ideas (Portable chip toilets? How would that work?) - other predictions are just a case of "Have hammer - will nail everything."
PAUL NURSE (President of Rockefeller University) is also nailing things with his hammer but at least he is using some common sense not to nail jello to the wall.
Only rich will live in New York? Who will serve them? Robots? Then how come there are poor if robots do our work? And if you think that the point of being served is to get things handed to you so you don't have to get up... Serving is about commanding other humans. Robot that says "How high Sir?" when you tell it to jump just ain't all that fun.
$200-300 barrels of oil? Conservative... Wasn't there some mention of about only 50 more years of oil? And with dollar going so far down... Why not $200.000-300.000 a barrel? Detaching oil from dollars and all those dollar bills in the world used by countries solely to trade for oil "coming back home" - what else besides guns in people's faces will make them use your printed paper instead of someone else's to trade in valuables? Now... Germans seem to have learned their lesson in forcing the world to do stuff they want of it - by using guns. It took them only 2 world wars and 40 years of the country divided by other people's cold war.
So far, Americans don't seem to be catching on. I sure do hope that they do. And soon. Or we all as a species might be fucked.
Close only counts in horseshoes throws. Notice the "Capable of being believed; plausible." line. Or the "to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so" line?
You saying that you are wearing a red shirt right now is believable. Getting that claim confirmed by an independent, known to be honest and unbiased source would make that claim credible.
Back to anonymous. Above mentioned death threats don't become credible because someone actually managed to kill the person that was threatened. Nor believable. I can claim that I can throw an olive from where I am sitting right now and kill you with it, but if tomorrow someone drops an anvil on your head - that won't make my claim credible. Or believable.
And as for internet anonymity - did you google yourself and online nicks you use recently? Meeh... forget that. One can hide one's IDs behind multiple disposable nicks. How about IDeas? How 'bout figures of speech, interests, sites you frequent, products you buy, even pr0n you watch? We are leaving an online trail of crumbs, only crumbs are the size of skyscrapers.
Anonymity? Yeah... I do think that there are a couple of places that provide it left in the world. Mostly jungles, deserts and bottoms of the ocean, but they do exist.
Shit! I KNOW that there is enough stuff about me out there that I could expect you in front of my door in the morning, like that guy waiting for Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element. Only thing is - I also know that I am not important enough for you or someone else to go through all that trouble. Now, if I did think that the case - installing a heartbeat monitor in my hallway or just firing couple of rounds through the door every morning before I go out takes care of that. Heck... might just install napalm sprinklers. And rotating saws. And shaped explosive charges in the ceiling.
Minor changes can grow into fundamental changes if you observe the problem from a different angle or with a different philosophy.
Wheels are also used for transport across water, not just hard, flat surfaces. But in the beginning of their implementation they were used just like the regular wheels on a car - pushing the steamboat from the back or pulling it from the sides.
But as the approach to the problem and philosophy changed, so did the use of the circularly moving object to propel the vessel. It turned 90, went under the surface of the water and changed shape somewhat. Wheel became a screw. It retained the basic properties it had. Circular shape and movement, being a propulsion device... you can even roll it across the hard surface the same way as its original implementation.
But minor changes in its shape, position and philosophy of use have increased its usefulness significantly.
If I and 10000 other people (anonymously) threaten to kill you, but someone completely different guns you down in the street - how does that make fore mentioned death threats credible?
You know... credible as in I and those other 10000 people could be sued and sentenced? Or even investigated.
Imagine it like this... Say Benazir Bhutto got a anonymous death threat, and police started arresting random people during her political rallies because they "looked suspiciously like someone who might be writing and sending death threats in his/her spare time".
If you allow credibility for anonymous claims - shit... I'll just go and open myself a anonymous bank account and anonymously claim that all Bill Gates' money belongs to me and should be transferred to that account. And since its cool and credible, anyone can just waltz into a bank and take some cash from it.
Try thinking anonymous as synonymous to "troll". It should help.
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You know... like an orbit or the equator.
BTW... I think that the GP is the first post I aimed to be funny that was moderated as Insightful instead of Troll or Flamebait.
Lets hope that will become a trend.
I meant it as a combo offer.
Just like there is no beer that is also a plane ticket and plane tickets that are also a beer. Which really is a shame.
But your Plastic Man/T1000-like vision is also interesting.
You should patent that. Call it a "Life Partner".
Just think of the commercials.
"My girlfriend goes from 0-60 in under 10 seconds and has an indoor swimming pool".
All you need is some nanobots.
So vegetarians can eat jello and marshmallows too. They only need to be more picky, and pay extra since v-gel is more expensive.
:P
Thing is, most of them have no idea they were eating animal products for years.
Being a bad boy - I take it upon myself to point it out to them. >:)
Muslim vegetarians?
My favorite.
If I weren't an atheist I'd compare it to christmas or something like that.
I myself prefer the cool/uncool division of our planet and/or galaxy.
Its very simple. I just take an arbitrary imaginary line and divide the planet/galaxy along that line.
The cool part is the one I'm on at the time. Simple.
Yeah, it sucks a bit for all those uncool people out there but its their own fault really.
For a price of a plane ticket and a beer they can be on the cool side too.
Get me a house/job/money/car/female-combo and I might consider making their neighborhood my permanent residence, and thus - cool.
Until someone from say... Delta Quadrant comes up with a better offer.
They have also put two different Commodore PETs and another Timex Sinclair but still no ZX.
Like you said - they're a bunch of Americans.
BTW... those roll-ups don't quite have that same "cheap-rubber-blup-blup" when you press them as the ZXs did.
But I may be wrong, it has been quite some since I last used a Spectrum.
...for its time. Particularly the thinner version.
But where the fuck is the ZX Spectrum? AKA "The Rubber".
Now THAT was a bad one. Pocket calculator keypad pretending to be a keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ZXSpectrum48k.jpg
Even the later + version was a bit strange with its cursor keys set left and right from the space bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ZX_Spectrum%2B.jpg
But saying C64 had too many symbols per key, and not mention the Spectrum is just plain ignorant.
For fucks sake - ZX had up to 6 symbols/commands attached to a single key.
Maybe there is a special 0 spot in the TFA that I missed?
Nope, there isn't.
And what is with all that hate for the BREAK key?
I remember it being quite useful for breaking all those GOTO 10 programs.
I am sure sooner or later someone will cater to the audiophile crowd too.
Say... a $5000 per square foot carpet that plays the sounds all around you. Or $10000 per roll wallpapers.
They'll probably throw in a couple of those $400 wooden knobs in the deal just to sweeten the pot.
As long as Han hits that first - all's right with the world.
Sarcasm. An elegant weapon for more civilized times.
From my observations so far, slashdot is more of a blaster crowd.
When facing a choice between a turd and a douche, I want the option to vote AGAINST.
Why not? When bastards get to their Parliaments, Congresses, Diets or however they call their little club where they are paid handsomely to do nothing - they get to vote "NO".
Well, damn... I want to vote "NO" to that.
And where is the option to ban the fuckers from practicing politics after they fuck up multiple times?
Save me!
Caution though. Your question will seem more and more silly as you read on.
Parent poster is not only trolling, as it was marked at the time of my posting, he/she is also going waaay off-topic.
Topic is about One Laptop Per Child and Intel's (non)involvement in the project. NOT about which charity each of us likes the best.
I find the parent post funny in its pointlessness.
Look - I am going to comment on it in a humorous way pointing out its fallacy.
And all those parts that laptops are made of are grown on trees that spontaneously sprout around OLPC HQs.
And then, they just fall on the ground when they are ripe, and are rolled around by winds and rain until they form complete laptops.
During that time, software for the laptop grows from the spores in the ground.
And then, once complete, laptops grow wings and fly directly to the child in need using the same guidance technology that Santa has been using for countless eons.
And that is why there is no money involved in the production of the OLPC.
Salvation Army is working on a cheap laptop for children too?
If they like the taste of human flesh.
Or the sound it makes when you smash it with your silicone-based tentacles.
What? You didn't like MY vision of the future but Saudi Arabian New York and underwater New York are OK?
Or the feudal New York where dance is the king?
Or did my guess strike too close to home?
I did base it on current economic and global trends.
Dollar going down, oil running out, US military spending gajilions of dollars on projects like that energy satellite or MF-in lasers on the MF-in planes.
Yeah... a regular troll-fest there.
Other than KIM HASTREITER (Co-founder and co-editor of Paper magazine) who is just fuckin' around, CAROL WILLIS (Founder and director of the Skyscraper Museum; curator of the exhibition "Future City") who is showing some common sense, KATE KAPLAN (Seventh grader, School of the Future, a New York City public school near Gramercy Park) who actually has some intriguing ideas (Portable chip toilets? How would that work?) - other predictions are just a case of "Have hammer - will nail everything."
PAUL NURSE (President of Rockefeller University) is also nailing things with his hammer but at least he is using some common sense not to nail jello to the wall.
Only rich will live in New York? Who will serve them? Robots? Then how come there are poor if robots do our work?
And if you think that the point of being served is to get things handed to you so you don't have to get up...
Serving is about commanding other humans.
Robot that says "How high Sir?" when you tell it to jump just ain't all that fun.
$200-300 barrels of oil? Conservative...
Wasn't there some mention of about only 50 more years of oil? And with dollar going so far down... Why not $200.000-300.000 a barrel?
Detaching oil from dollars and all those dollar bills in the world used by countries solely to trade for oil "coming back home" - what else besides guns in people's faces will make them use your printed paper instead of someone else's to trade in valuables?
Now... Germans seem to have learned their lesson in forcing the world to do stuff they want of it - by using guns.
It took them only 2 world wars and 40 years of the country divided by other people's cold war.
So far, Americans don't seem to be catching on.
I sure do hope that they do. And soon. Or we all as a species might be fucked.
Credible
Believable
Close only counts in horseshoes throws.
Notice the "Capable of being believed; plausible." line. Or the "to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so" line?
You saying that you are wearing a red shirt right now is believable.
Getting that claim confirmed by an independent, known to be honest and unbiased source would make that claim credible.
Back to anonymous.
Above mentioned death threats don't become credible because someone actually managed to kill the person that was threatened. Nor believable.
I can claim that I can throw an olive from where I am sitting right now and kill you with it, but if tomorrow someone drops an anvil on your head - that won't make my claim credible. Or believable.
And as for internet anonymity - did you google yourself and online nicks you use recently?
Meeh... forget that. One can hide one's IDs behind multiple disposable nicks. How about IDeas?
How 'bout figures of speech, interests, sites you frequent, products you buy, even pr0n you watch?
We are leaving an online trail of crumbs, only crumbs are the size of skyscrapers.
Anonymity? Yeah... I do think that there are a couple of places that provide it left in the world.
Mostly jungles, deserts and bottoms of the ocean, but they do exist.
Shit!
I KNOW that there is enough stuff about me out there that I could expect you in front of my door in the morning, like that guy waiting for Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element.
Only thing is - I also know that I am not important enough for you or someone else to go through all that trouble.
Now, if I did think that the case - installing a heartbeat monitor in my hallway or just firing couple of rounds through the door every morning before I go out takes care of that.
Heck... might just install napalm sprinklers. And rotating saws. And shaped explosive charges in the ceiling.
But like I said... not important enough.
Since the talk shifted to wheels...
Minor changes can grow into fundamental changes if you observe the problem from a different angle or with a different philosophy.
Wheels are also used for transport across water, not just hard, flat surfaces.
But in the beginning of their implementation they were used just like the regular wheels on a car - pushing the steamboat from the back or pulling it from the sides.
But as the approach to the problem and philosophy changed, so did the use of the circularly moving object to propel the vessel.
It turned 90, went under the surface of the water and changed shape somewhat. Wheel became a screw.
It retained the basic properties it had. Circular shape and movement, being a propulsion device... you can even roll it across the hard surface the same way as its original implementation.
But minor changes in its shape, position and philosophy of use have increased its usefulness significantly.
Oooh Better!
...nothing couple of $400 wooden knobs couldn't fix.
But just for good measure - add some super-clean gold-plated copper cables at $1500 per foot.
That will fix it.
If I and 10000 other people (anonymously) threaten to kill you, but someone completely different guns you down in the street - how does that make fore mentioned death threats credible?
You know... credible as in I and those other 10000 people could be sued and sentenced? Or even investigated.
Imagine it like this...
Say Benazir Bhutto got a anonymous death threat, and police started arresting random people during her political rallies because they "looked suspiciously like someone who might be writing and sending death threats in his/her spare time".
If you allow credibility for anonymous claims - shit... I'll just go and open myself a anonymous bank account and anonymously claim that all Bill Gates' money belongs to me and should be transferred to that account.
And since its cool and credible, anyone can just waltz into a bank and take some cash from it.
Try thinking anonymous as synonymous to "troll". It should help.
Practicing those arm muscles will come in handy later in life.
Namely, when they hit puberty. They'll be moving those arms like crazy then.
Best to start building those muscles and tendons early.
Over 3 million Americans disagree with you. And many more around the world.
And they keep doing that every month.
Barbies are not my favorite either, but hey... A man must make SOME sacrifices in life.
...make you appreciate fully how F-ing unimaginative all those celebrities on MTV Cribs are.
Well... except Hugh Hefner.
Compared to a houseful of Playboy models (with regular updates too), any other house improvement is just... pathetic.